No Garbage Allowed!

Rules

  1. Keep Your Hands and Feet To Yourself
  2. Be Loud When It's Time to Be Loud
  3. Be Quiet When It's Time to Be Quiet
  4. Save Your Prizes until the End
  5. Have Fun!
Prize Method

Please refer to the Prize Methods Page for more ideas on a prize method. Use one method for a few weeks, then change to another method.
Game #1 - Marshmallows in the Mud

This is a messy game! You will need 2 packs of instant pudding. Mix them according to the directions on the package. Pour them into 4 separate shallow bowls or pans. Put 5 mini marshmallows in the pudding right before the game is to be played. Put the bowls on a table. Choose 2 girls and 2 boys. Warn them, they will get messy! On "Go" the players are to find the marshmallows that are buried in the pudding. They can only use their mouth! No hands allowed! They can spit the marshmallows out onto a paper towel beside their bowl when they find them in the pudding. The first player to find all five marshmallows wins! Play upbeat, energetic music while the game is being played. The music starts on "Go" and stops when someone wins. Encourage kids to cheer loudly for their team. This is a good time to hand out incentives!
Object Lesson - from the book - Outrageous Object Lessons by E.G. Von Trutzschler

You will need two cans of pop, two large glasses, and a garbage can.
Choose two volunteers to help you. Pour one can of pop into one of the glasses and hand it to one of the volunteers to drink. Then pour the other can of pop into the garbage can. Swirl it around for a bit, then pour it into the other glass. Then hand it to the other volunteer to drink. When the person refuses, ask him to state the reason why he didn't want to drink it. After he says something to the effect that "it's dirty! There's no way I would put that poison into my body!", draw an analogy to point out that in the same way, we must be careful not to pollute our spiritual selves, because that, too, can do great harm. (Once in a while you might get some sweet child who would drink the dirty drink! Don't let them. Explain that it would pollute their body!)
Story - Big Heads

Johnny was on his way home from Kids Club. He was thinking about what he had learned that day. "Create in me a clean heart, God.....No Garbage Allowed in me!" He was going to try really heard the next day, to not let any garbage get into his head, and into his heart.

The next day, Johnny went to school. His friends had a magazine that was full of evil stuff, and had lots of pictures of people with knives and guns. He remembered what he had learned in Kids Club. The magazine was full of garbage. His friends told him, it's just pretend, it's not really real killing, it's just a story. But, even though his friends didn't seem to think is was bad, Johnny knew it was garbage, and he shouldn't look at it! No Garbage Allowed in His brain!

When school was over, Johnny went home. He turned on the TV and started flicking through the channels to see what he would watch. There were cartoons on, and some news, and some talk shows. He stopped for a minute on one of the talk shows. The people on the show were saying that it was O.K. to hate someone if they did something really mean to you. Johnny thought about that. Was this a good lesson to learn? No way! He knew that the bible tells us to forgive each other! This show was garbage! He decided that he didn't want to put garbage into his brain, so he turned the TV off. There wasn't anything good on anyway.

Later when his brother came home from hockey practice, he started to tell Johnny about the other boys on the team. He was telling them about someone on his team that was kind of a loser. He wasn't good at hockey, and he dressed in dumb clothes and..... Johnny thought for a minute. The things he was listening to were garbage! They were not nice things about the boy on the hockey team! They were mean! Johnny told his brother that he didn't want to hear bad things about people. He just wanted to hear good things, after all talking bad about people is called gossip! He didn't want any garbage about other people getting into him! So, he talked about how the practice went instead.

Johnny had to try really hard not to let garbage get into him! Sometimes it was very hard to walk away from something because it seemed so interesting! But Johnny realized it was more important to do what God wanted him to do! "Create in me a clean heart, God, and renew a right spirit in me." Johnny had to remind himself of this every day!
Story Explanation & Salvation Message

It was hard for Johnny to walk away from garbage that his friends were looking at, from garbage on TV., and from garbage that his brother wanted to tell him. To have enough guts to walk away from garbage, you need someone's help! God's Help! He wants to be your friend, and help you with lots of stuff everyday! All you have to do is ask him! (Lead the kids in a repeat after me prayer!)
Game #2 - Sleeping Bag Race

You will need 2 sleeping bags, one for each team. Choose 5 girls and 5 boys. On "Go" the first person gets into the sleeping bag, and jumps or runs to the finish line and back. Then they get out of the sleeping bag, and give it to the next person in line to do the same thing. The first team to finish wins. Play upbeat, energetic music while the game is being played. The music starts on "Go" and stops when someone wins. Encourage kids to cheer loudly for their team. This is a good time to hand out incentives!
Make a List

List on a chalkboard some things that are classified as "garbage". Let the kids suggest things. This will help them understand, what to stay away from. Because today's society says "anything goes", kids may not even realize what is harmful to them!
Memory Verse

Create in me a clean heart, God, and renew a right spirit in me. Psalm 51:10

Due to no time left, review the memory verse several times with the kids. Have a volunteer come up and write the verse on the chalkboard as the group says it over, and over until the volunteer is done writing the verse.
Close in Prayer




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